Device for installing window screens



Feb. 13, 1934. E. w, PENDERY 1,947,102

DEVICE FOR INSTALLING WINDOW SCREENS Filed April 16, 1928 I NV EN TOR.

aim/mind BY fla flu ATTORNEY.

Patented Feb. 13, 1934 I onireosra'rss PATENT orgies DEVICE FOR INSTALLING WINDOW SCREENS Edward W. Pendery, Newport, Ky., assignor to The Higgin Manufacturing Company, Newport, Ky., a corporation of West Virginia Application April 16, 1928. Serial No. 270,255

1'! Claims. (Cl. 156-44) My invention relates particularly to the inwindow with my installing devices and a window stallation of window screens in metal frame sash, screen in place. an example or" which is the sash used for base- Figure 2 is a perspective view of my installing ment windows in modern homes. Although my device. invention is useful in installing screens upon other Figure 3 is a view of the cooperating screen 60 types of windows, I will describe its application edge. particularly to this style. Figure 4 is a vertical section of a window with Hitherto, after the screens have been manuthe screen in place. factored in the factory, it has been necessary to Figure 5 is a view of a metal frame window with send a workman to install them and the installathe sash partly open. 65 tion has been practically a special job in each Figure 6 is a section of my attachment device instance. That is to say, the workman hitherto taken along the lines 6-6 in Figure 2. has had to spend much time in fitting the indi- Figure 1 shows a metal framed window with vidual screens, and in drilling and tapping the frame members 1 and so-called Weathering memscreen and the window frame for bolts and the bers 2, comprising the window frame. A metal 70 like. In not exceptional instances, he has had sash 3 bearing a glass 4, is mounted therein so as to spend time in chipping away cement or groutto open inwardly. It will be seen that the edge ing or in other ways preparing the window frame of the sash frame 3 abuts'very closely the edge of for the reception of the screen. All of this work the weathering 2 so as to make a reasonably E0 is done without supervision and is charged for by weather-tight joint. The screen which I have in- 7 6 the workman usually at an hourly rate. Usually, dicated generally as 5 is mounted outside the however, the manufacturer makes to the conwindow frame and is held in place by fastening sumer, a price on the screens delivered and indevices 6 which I shall hereinafter more fully destalled and the variable factor of labor is somescribe.

' thing which frequently reduces or destroys a Broadly speaking, I provide an installation de- 8!) satisfactory margin of profit. vice of such character that it may be slipped over It is an object of my invention to provide a the weathering 2 and will provide on the outside device for installing window screens such that 'of the sash a bearing for the screen; and the costandard screens and standard installation deoperation of the screen and the installation device vices may be made for standard metal frame is such that when the screen has been placed in 85 windows. It is another object of my invention the bearing, the installation device cannot be to provide an installation device which will render removed from the weathering, as will more fully unnecessary any work such as drilling and tapappear hereinafter. To accomplish these two ping the metal window frame itself. Still another objects, I make my installation device of sheet object of my invention is to provide an attachmetal bending a part on itself to form a narrow 9 0 ment device which can be slipped on to a mem- U-section which I have designated as 7 in Figure ber of the metallic window frame and then used 6. This U-section is of the proper shape and to form a mounting for the screen so that the depth to slip over the edge of the weathering 2 length of time taken to install screens of this and grip it more or less tightly. On this U-shaped L0 charac can be carefully calculated before hand section '7 is a back plate 8, formed by a con- 95 and so that the manufacturer in bidding on 'tinuation of the metal and on this back plate, screens installed, may calculate accurately his there is attached a sheet metal piece forming the labor cost. Still another object of my invention bearing mentioned above and comprising a wedge is to provide an attaching device which will not forming portion 9 and a shoulder forming portion only hold the screen firmly to the window, but 10 which lies along the back 8. 1 00 which will make it impossible to remove the screen Inwardly opening windows in metallic framed from the outside of the window, thus providing a sash of this character ordinarily are not hinged screen closure as nearly thief-proof as is possible or pivoted to the frame, but are hung on arms in the nature of the article. These and other 11 in Figure 5. The action of these arms and a 0 objects to which reference will be made in the stop member on the lower part of the sash 3 is m5 ensuing disclosure I accomplish by that certain such that when the sash is open it is not only combination and arrangement of parts of which tilted inwardly but the bottom thereof is raised I have illustrated a preferred embodiment. above the window sill and the lower edge of the In the drawing:-- sash generally projects beyond the plane of the Figure l isahorizontal section of a metal frame edges of the weathering 2. Provision must be no made for this, since it will be obvious that a screen placed flush against the weathering 2 would not permit the opening of the window. I accomplish this provision by separating the ledge and shoulder of my installation device from the U-shaped portion near the bottom of the device as will be more clearly understood by reference to Figure 2. My installation device is preferably made at least as long as the side of the screen and the U-shaped portion 7 is made as long as the window opening, i. e. so long that it will cover the entire side edge of the weathering 2.

Although my installation device may be made, if desired, from one piece of metal, it is more conveniently made of two, one being an angle section comprising the ledge 9 and shoulder 10 and being similar throughout its length; the other comprising the U-shaped section 7 and the back piece 8; but the back piece 8 will be wider at the bottom than at the top. In Figure 2 I have shown at the top of the installation device, the ledge 9 and the shoulder 10, in close juxtaposition to the U-shaped section '7, whereas at the bottom it will be noted that there is a space between, sufiicient to accommodate the outward swing of the sash in opening; and it may be said therefore, that my screen installation device has in one elevation a generally triangular shape. I prefer to fasten the two pieces of metal forming my installation device together by means of spot welding as is usual in the manufacture of metal frame window screens although they may be fastened together in other ways if desired, as by riveting. I prefer to provide at the bottom of my attachment device, a supplementary closure member which I have indicated at 12 in Figures 2 and 6.

The purpose of this is to make doubly sure that .there will be no opening at the bottom of the screen through which insects may pass, although as I shall hereinafter explain, I provide on the bottom of my screen a device for this same purpose.

It will also be noted in Figure 2 that I may stop my U-shaped section short of the ends of the installation device, i. e., that I may and preferably do make my installation device longer than the length of the internal opening of the window along the weathering 2. This is because an overlap of the screen all around the weathering is desirable for utility and for appearance sake; but it will be obvious that I may so modify my construction as to permit the use of a screen which is not very much if at all larger than the opening in the weathering.

I also provide in the shoulder 10 and back plate 8 a notch 13 and a hole 14, which cooperating with members on the screen, hold the screen in place. I also provide where necessary at the bottom of the U-shaped section '7, an outward flare or bend 15, the purpose of which is to abut the sill 16 (see Figure 4) and keep my installation device from being vertically displaced.

The cooperation of the window frame installation device and the screen will now be clearly understood upon reference to Figure 1. It will be seen that the U-shaped sections '7, one on either side, grip the edges of the weathering 2 and that the screen 5 lies in the bearings provided therefor and comprising the ledges 9 and shoulders 10; and it will be further evident that since the screen will prevent my attaching devices from being displaced toward each other, as long as the screen is in place, my attaching devices will remain firmly fixed to the weathering 2. In installing screens through the use of my devices, the workman, bringing the screens to the job, merely fits an installation device upon the weathering 2 at either side of the window screen and then mounts the screen in the bearings thereby provided. Thereupon the work of installation is complete, and it will be seen that there has been no necessity for drilling or tapping or any extra time consumed in hand labor operations. There is play enough between the sash 3 and the weathering 2 to accommodate the thin metallic part of my U-shaped section '7 which extends within the frame, and to this extent my installation device acts as a weather strip so as more effectively to close the opening between the weathering and the sash and to exclude the air.

There remains to be described the means whereby the screen is held in the bearings heretofore mentioned. The screen itself is preferably of a metallic frame construction in which the frame is made of sheet metal bent upon itself to provide a channeled body section 17 in Figure 4 and a channel section 18 for the attachment or the screen cloth 19 by means of a spring clip 20, Sections of this metallic frame are mitered and assembled to form a completed window screen, the several mitered sections being held together preferably by being fitted to an interior angle piece of .metal, although the frames may be otherwise fastened or welded, if desired. In screens for windows of this type, I prefer, although it is not necessary, to make the top frame member of rounded construction, as shown in Figure 3. At either side and near the top, I provide pins 21. Lower down the screen I provide spring tension plungers 22 actuated by springs 23 (see Fig. 1) and manually retractable by means of rings 24. These spring plungers need no further description since they are common in the art.

I have already described how my screen in stallation devices are mounted in position on the weathering. To place the screen in the bearings thereby provided is a simple matter as follows: the pins 21 are caused to rest within the notches 13 while the screen is tilted slightly outwardly. The workman installing the screen stands on the inside of the window. Grasping the rings 24 he retracts the plungers 22 within the screen frame on either side, whereupon he swings the frame downward so that it now lies wholly within the bearings. He releases the rings 24 and the plungers 22, driven outwardly by the springs, enter the holes 14. The screen is now firmly fastened within the bearings at four points, two on either side. It will be understood upon reference to Figure 1, that the rings lie on the inside of the screen. Thus it will be very difiicult for one to remove the screen from the outside and this can only be done by the insertion of something through the holes 14 which will push back the plungers. To prevent this, I may weld over the holes 14 and on to the backing plate 8, pieces of metal which will cover these holes and which will prevent the manipulation of plungers 22 from the outside. I have shown one of these pieces in dotted lines at 25 in Figure 1. As an alternative, I may make the hole 14 only through the shoulder 10 but not through the back plate 8 so that the plunger 22 cannot pass entirely through my attaching device so as to be accessible from the outside.

It will be seen that due to the semi-triangular shape of my screen attaching device as described above, there will be an opening between the screen and the sash at the bottom. This openn iiJU ing is very clearly shown in Figure 4. The means which I provide to close this opening comprise a metallic strip 26 to be fastened to the bottom of my screen by screws 27 or otherwise. This strip may be bent up along the edge of the screen, if desired, as at 28, but it preferably is bent up on the other side, i. e. the side lying away from the screen as at 29. The width of the strip is such as completely to close the opening between the lower edge of my screen and the sash, and the upturned end 29 will (as is shown in Figure 4) lie between the lower edge portion of the sash 3 and the weathering 2. It will be observed that in this particular construction of window, at the bottom, the sash 3 lies outside the weathering, whereas along the sides the sasl lies inside and abuts the weathering. Strip 26 may be made somewhat longer than the screen so as to come up flush with the edge of my attachment device. This is not necessary, however, as the purpose of the closure 12 in Figure 6 is to make the screen tight even though the strip 26 may be shorter than is necessary to bring it up to the lower end of the backing plate 8.

Various modifications of my invention, particularly those to adapt it to the metal framed windows put out by different manufacturers and which vary slightly in design, will fall within the ability of those skilled in the art to construct without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A screen application device comprising a U-shaped member adapted to grip a window frame, a member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, and a connection of varying width between said members, whereby said members are closer together at one end of the device than at the other.

2. A screen application device comprising a sheet metal portion bent to form a U-section for gripping the edge of a window frame,and a connecting section extending at an angle to said U-section, and a separate sheet metal portion bent to form the ledge and shoulder of a seat for a screen edge, said two portions fastened together.

3. A screen application device comprising a sheet metal portion bent to form a U-section for gripping the edge of a window frame, and a connecting section extending at an angle to said U-section, and a separate sheet metal portion bent to form the ledge and shoulder of a seat for a screen edge, said two portions fastened together, having a notch to accommodate the pivot of a screen, having a hole to accommodate a screen locking device.

4. A screen application device comprising a sheet metal portion bent to form a U-section for gripping the edge of a window frame, and a connecting section wider at one end than the other 'and extending at an angle to saidU-section, and a separate sheet metal portion bent to form the ledge and shoulder of a seat for a screen edge, said two portions fastened together by means of said connecting section so that they approach each other nearer at one end of the device than at the other.

5. A screen application device comprising a sheet metal portion bent to form a U-section for gripping the edge of a window frame, and a connecting section wider at one end than the other and extending at an angle to said U-section, and

a separate sheet metal portion bent to form the ledge and shoulder of a seat for a screen edge, said two portions fastened together by means of said connecting section so that they approach each other nearer at one end of the device than at the other, said seat having a notch to accommodate the pivot of a screen, and a hole to accommodate a screen locking device.

6. Means for installing window screens comprising left and right attaching devices, each comprising a member adapted to grip a window frame within the opening thereof, a member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, and a connection therebetween, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame to receive a screen in said seats, whereby when the screen is in said seats said gripping members cannot be withdrawn from engagement with the window frame edges.

'7. Means for installing window screens comprising left and right attaching devices, each comprising a member adapted to grip a window frame within the opening thereof, a member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, and a connection therebetween, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame to receive a screen in said seats, whereby when the screen is in said seats said gripping members cannot be withdrawn from engagement with said window frame edges, said gripping means of a length equal to the length of the side of the window frame opening with which each engages, whereby said devices are held against longitudinal movement, and means movable relatively to said seats for fastening a screen in said seats whereby said screen is rigidly affixed to said window opening.

8. Means for installing window screens comprising left and right attaching devices, each comprising a member adapted to grip a window frame within the opening thereof, a member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, and a connection therebetween, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on the window frame to receive a screen in said seats, whereby when said screen is in said seat said gripping members cannot be withdrawn from engagement with the window frame edges, said gripping means of a length equal to the length of the side of the window frame opening with which each may engage, whereby said devices will be held against longitudinal movement, and means for fastening a screen in said seats whereby the screen is rigidly afdxed to the window opening, said connection being wider at the bottom than at the top whereby the screen is caused to extend outwardly from the window frame at the bottom to accommodate the outward swing of a sash therein in opening.

9. Means for installing window screens comprising left and right attaching devices, each comprising a member adapted to grip a window frame within the opening thereof, a member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, and a connection therebetween, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on the window frame to receive a screen in said seats, whereby when the screen is in said seats said gripping members can not be withdrawn from engagement with said window frame edges, said gripping means of a length equal to the length of the side of the window frame opening with which each may engage, whereby said devices will be held against longitudinal movement, said seat being provided with a notch in its upper end and a hole intermediate of its ends, and means for fastening the screen in said seats whereby the screen is rigidly aflixed to said window opening, said means comprising pivots to engage in said notches in the top of said seats, and screw locking devices to engage in said holes.

10. In a screen assembly for metallic window frames, left and right screen attaching devices, each comprising a member of sheet metal substantially U-shaped and adapted to grip the edge of the window frame within the opening thereof throughout its length, a sheet metal member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, said seat comprising a bearing ledge and a retaining shoulder, and a connection between said members, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame and to extend outwardly therefrom to form a screen attachment, and a screen in said attachment, the opposite edges thereof lying within said seats, and means for fastening said screen in said attachment whereby said attaching devices cannot be displaced toward each other so as to be removed from engagement with the window frame edges.

11. In a screen assembly for metallic window frames, left and right screen attaching devices, each comprising a member of sheet metal substantially U-shaped and adapted to grip the edge of the window frame within the opening thereof throughout its length, a sheet metal member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, said seat comprising a bearing ledge and a retaining shoulder, and a connection between said members, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame and to extend outwardly therefrom to form a screen attachment, and a screen in said attachment, the opposite edges thereof lying within said seats, and means for fastening said screen in said attachment, said fastening means being so located as to be inoperable from the outside of the window.

12. In a screen assembly for metallic window frames, left and right screen attaching devices, each comprising a member of sheet metal substantially U-shaped and adapted to grip the edge of the window frame within the opening thereof throughout its length, a sheet metal member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, said seat comprising a bearing ledge and a retaining shoulder, and a connection between said members, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame and to extend outwardly therefrom to form a screen attachment, and a screen in said attachment, the opposite edges thereof lying within said seats, and means for fastening the screen in the attachment whereby the attaching devices cannot be displaced toward each other so as to be removed from engagement with said window frame edges, said means comprising pivot pins at the top of said screen and resting in notches in said seats, spring actuated locking means in said screen edges and operable from within, said locking means engageable with said seats.

13. In a screen assembly for metallic window frames, left and right screen attaching devices, each comprising a member of sheet metal substantially U-shaped and adapted to grip the edge of the window frame within the opening thereof throughout its length, a sheet metal member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, said seat comprising a bearing ledge and a retaining shoulder, and a connection between said mem bers, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame and to extend outwardly therefrom to form a screen attachment, and a screen in said attachment, the opposite edges thereof lying within said seats, and means for fastening the screen in said attachment whereby said attaching devices cannot be displaced toward each other so as to be removed from engagement with said window frame edges, said connection being wider at the bottom than at the top whereby said screen is caused to extend outwardly from the window frame at the bottom thereof to accommodate the outward swing of a sash, and means on said screen to close the opening between it and the window frame at the bottom.

14. In a screen assembly for metallic window frames, left and right screen attaching devices, each comprising a member of sheet metal substantially U-shaped and adapted to grip the edge of the window frame within the opening thereof throughout its length, a sheet metal member adapted to form a seat for a screen edge, said seat comprising a bearing ledge and a retaining shoulder, and a connection between said members, said devices adapted to be oppositely disposed on a window frame and to extend outwardly therefrom to form a screen attachment, and a screen in said attachment, the opposite edges thereof lying within said seats, and means for fastening the screen in said attachment whereby said attaching devices cannot be displaced toward each other so as to be removed from engagement with said window frame edges, said connection being wider at the bottom than at the top whereby said screen is caused to extend outwardly from the window frame at the bottom thereof to accommodate the outward swing of a sash, and means on said screen to close the opening between it and the Window frame at the bottom, said means comprising a sheet metal member adapted to extend across said opening and be engaged against said window frame by said sash when closed.

15. A screen attachment device comprising right and left members, each comprising a sheet metal section having a substantially triangular connecting portion and a substantially U-shaped portion adapted to grip a window frame edge, said connecting portion extending at right angles from the end of a leg of the U, and a sheet metal section bent at an angle to form a seat comprising a ledge and shoulder for a screen edge, said shoulder being spot-welded to said connecting portion so as to meet the edge thereof and approach the U-section closer at one end than at the other.

16. A screen attachment device comprising right and left members, each comprising a sheet metal section having a substantially triangular connecting portion and a substantially U-shaped portion adapted to grip a window frame edge, said connecting portion extending at right angles from the end of a leg of the U, and a sheet metal section bent at an angle to form a seat comprising a ledge and shoulder for a screen edge, said shoulder being spot-welded to said connecting portion so as to meet the edge thereof and approach the U-section closer at one end than the other, and a metal closure on said connecting portion extending therefrom at right angles to close the wider end between said ledge and said U-section.

17. A screen attachment device comprising right and left members, each comp-rising a sheet metal section having a substantially triangular connecting portion and a substantially U-shaped portion adapted to grip a window frame edge,

preach the U-section closer at one end than the other, the seat having a notch in the upper part of said shoulder, and having a hole in said shoulder intermediate its length.

EDWARD W. PENDERY. 

